freebsd-ports/security/wpa_supplicant/pkg-descr
John Marino 0d6daefa09 Revive security/wpa_supplicant after 6.5 years => version 2.3
This port was retired at version 0.3.8 because wpa_supplicant is
part of FreeBSD base.  However, the last few releases have had a period
of only a few months, so the base is always going to be behind.  DragonFly
is also affected, so I'm bringing the port back at the latest version.

It features the same patches as FreeBSD including the conversion to use
libutil's pidfile routines.  There are some additional patches for
DragonFly support and to fix some bugs from the 9 Oct 2014 release.

The WPA Supplicant build system has been converted to ports options, and
there are dozens of them.  I've set the defaults to match the
configuration in base and verified that it builds with all options
selected at once.
2014-10-12 21:20:25 +00:00

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wpa_supplicant is a client (supplicant) with support for WPA and WPA2
(IEEE 802.11i / RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and
embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used
in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA
Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/
association of the wlan driver.
wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the
background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless
connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a
text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with
wpa_supplicant.
WWW: http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/